The US-China trade dispute has now begun to hit some of the other sectors of the two economies. On June 15, 2018, President Trump said the US would impose tariffs worth 50 billion USD on Chinese imports.

If we disentangle politics from the ongoing process to prepare a National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam, we will better understand the ‘what, why and how’ of the exercise, its enormity, and its necessity from both the State and the national perspectives.

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